PM Nawaz announces mega development package for Okara

OKARA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday announced a mega development package for Okara city comprising an industrial estate, gas supply, up gradation of hospital, construction of a flyover and linking the city with motorways network.

Addressing a public gathering here, PM lauded the enthusiasm of the audience and said he would be visiting every nook and cranny of the country with a message of prosperity and development.

He was accompanied by Members of the National Assembly Riazul Haq Juj and Chaudhry Nadeem Abbas and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Mian Munir, Mian Yawar Zaman and others.

He assured the audience that as per his commitment, Multan-Lahore motorway would pass through Okara and Dipalpur because Okara is very dear to me.

Earlier, the prime minister inaugurated a gas supply scheme for the city, besides breaking ground for a Rs 740 million Dipalpur flyover bridge to ease the traffic congestion.

Drawing a comparison between the PML-N gathering in Okara and the one held by Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf in Islamabad on Friday, he said that was a little gathering and this is a Jalsa. There is hell of difference. This is the decision of the people of Pakistan.

The prime minister said it was strange that the ‘inventors’ of load shedding were now protesting and urged the audience to account them for dragging the country into darkness.

However, he reiterated his government’s resolve to salvage the country from loadshedding by 2018 as power projects were about to be inaugurated on monthly basis.

After recently opened 1300 MW Bhikki power plant, he said it would follow the operationalization of Qadirpur power plant,
Balloki, Port Qasim and Tarbella-IV plants of same capacity each, besides Neelum Jhelum hydropower project to add 960 MW.

Criticising the opposition, the prime minister said they would be left just to protest as the PML-N would keep up its journey of national development.

He announced to visit Dipalpur city before the month of holy Ramazan to announce development projects there.
He said Rs 470 million would be spent for gas supply to Okara city, Rs 740 million for Dipalpur Chowk flyover and Rs 200 million for uplift of the city’s roads.

The existing 200-bed hospital would be upgraded to 500-bed facility, he said accepting the demands earlier put forth by MNA Riazul Haq Juj.